Mentions:
1: Lord Dubs (Lab - Life peer) Is not there some truth in what Sir Max Hastings said: that there is a“Tory war on the BBC”? - Speech Link
2: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) It is important that the BBC does this. - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) That money delivers the BBC more than £3.8 billion per year. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Colville of Culross (XB - Excepted Hereditary) last decade has adversely affected the commissioning of documentaries on the BBC? - Speech Link
Jan. 22 2024
Source Page: BBC Mid-Term Review 2024Found: BBC Mid-Term Review 2024
Mentions:
1: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) Compounding that, BBC News saw fit to describe that as a pro-Jewish march.The BBC has been criticised - Speech Link
2: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Elmet and Rothwell) I would argue that what they hate is BBC News, not the BBC itself, but the reality is that the BBC’s - Speech Link
3: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) impartiality, apparently 36% of the public see the BBC as neutral; 15% see the BBC as pro-Palestine; - Speech Link
4: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) I am not here to defend the BBC. - Speech Link
Oral Evidence Mar. 05 2024
Inquiry: Minority languagesFound: Screen Cornwall, Billy Kay, BBC Northern Ireland, and BBC Gaeilge Oral Evidence
Mentions:
1: None We are clear that we want the BBC to succeed. - Speech Link
2: None The BBC is a great national institution. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LD - Life peer) My noble friend—if I may call him that—Lord Birt was behind BBC Online and the BBC has continued to lead - Speech Link
4: Lord Hayward (Con - Life peer) The first four entries come from the BBC. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lucy Frazer (Con - South East Cambridgeshire) It will assess a range of options for funding the BBC. - Speech Link
2: Thangam Debbonaire (Lab - Bristol West) Labour backs the BBC. - Speech Link
3: James Sunderland (Con - Bracknell) I have always loved the BBC. - Speech Link
4: Lucy Frazer (Con - South East Cambridgeshire) I must emphasise that the BBC is operationally independent. - Speech Link
A Bill to establish the BBC Licence Fee Commission to make recommendations to the Secretary of State on a settlement for BBC funding from 1 April 2022, after conducting public and parliamentary consultation
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will hold discussions with the BBC on taking steps to ensure that its commissioning processes are subject to independent scrutiny.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
The BBC is operationally and editorially independent and BBC commissioning is rightly a matter for the BBC, not for the Government.
The Charter requires the BBC to commission programmes in a way that is fair and transparent, allowing non-BBC producers to compete for BBC projects. Due to measures introduced by this Government, by the end of this Charter (2027), 100% of BBC television and 60% of BBC radio will be fully open to competition to support a diverse range of stories and views on the BBC.
The BBC has set out a clear commissioning framework and code of practice, agreed with Ofcom, that governs the commissioning of TV content from independent producers.
BBC World Service provides trusted news to radio, TV and digital audiences around the world in 42 languages including English, reaching a global audience of 318m. It is chiefly funded by the UK Licence Fee with additional grant funding of £104.4m [FY 23/24 and 24/25 respectively] from the Foreign, Commonwealth …